The claim is that the proportion of adults who smoked a cigarette in the past week is less than 0.25 and the sample statistics include n=1150 subjects with 265 saying that they smoked a cigarette in the past week. Find the value of the test statistic.

In the 1980's it was believed that congenital abnormalities affected about 5.4% of the nation's children. Some people believe that an increase in the chemicals in the environment has led to an increase in the number of abnormalities. A recent study examined 400 randomly selected children and found that 29 of them showed signs of an abnormality. Does this provide evidence that the risk of congenital abnormalities has increase? Use a 0.05 to make your decision. What is the resulting test statistics?

A psychological study wants to analyze the relationship between anxiety and binge drinking; a questionnaire for anxiety and questionnaire for binge drinking is administered to each subject. What would be a good statistical test to test the hypothesis?

Solve A, B & C. It's a multiple choice question. Please provide correct answer.

Twenty years ago, 47% of parents of children in high school felt it was a serious problem that high school students were not being taught enough math and science. A recent survey found that 293 of 900 parents of children in high school felt it was a serious problem that high school students were not being taught enough math and science. Do parents feel differently today than they did twenty years ago? Use the a = 0.01 level of significance. ... Find the test statistic. Zn = (Round to two decimal places as needed.) %3D

Suppose we measure GPA for people in our class, we find the mean is 2.8 and the median is 3.2. What can you say is most likely true about GPAs in our class?

Two samples are randomly selected from a population. One sample has n = 5 and the second has n = 30.  Which sample should have a mean (M) that is closer to?  Explain your answer.

you are provideded with the dataset representing the scores of a group of students who underwent a new tutoring program to improve their math skills. The mean national score is 75. You want to determine if the new tutoring program had a significant positive impact on the students scores. Which type of test should you conduct? State the null and research hypotheses.

A researcher gathered a sample of participants who volunteered for a studying of phobias. She measured anxiety level of participants as they viewed photos of spiders and again when they viewed puppies. Which statistical test is appropriate for this study and why?

A research scientist wishes to test the claim that the mean number of children per classroom in California elementary school is less than 35. She selects a simple random sample of 29 California elementary school classrooms. She know nothing about the distribution of children in classrooms. Can she use the data to test her claim?